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THE AM AW l&trsrrV'BIT PROGRESSIVE JOURNAL TWENTY-THIRD YEAR. 12 PAGES PIIOENfX, AiM7,u:,A, TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL--22, 1913. 12 PAGES .VOL. XXIII. NO. 331 IRE DRASTIC LAND BILL IS BEING FRAUD It is Expected That New Proposed Measures Will Be Voted On by California Senate Some Time This Week GUARDED LANGUAGE IS THROWN OUT Amendment Will Provide No Alien Ineligible to Citizenship May Hold Any Land vfior Greater Period Than Year AMOCTATBD PMS BISFATOHj 8 ACR.VM ENTO, April 21. Two ih-vv bills dealing with the Question of land ownership by aliens of California, each representing the views of con.sidera.ble of the factions of the legislature, will be offered and voted on in the senate this week. Thnmgh an agreement reached by ibe leaders of the majority, a drastic law directed solely against the Japanese ami Chinese will be proposed as a substitute for the Thompson-Hirdsall measure and put in its place two -simple prohibitions: 1. No alien who is ineligible to citizenship will be permitted to acquire and hold land in California beyond a period of one year after the date of such acquisition. 2. No corporation, the majority of the stock of which is held by aliens who are ineligible to citizenship will be permitted to acquire or hold land t-Tcept for one year. Agreed to this procedure are Senator A. E. Boynton, president pro tern and floor leader of the upper house; Senator Lee C. Gates, chairman of the judiciary committee; Senator X. W. Thompson, chairman of the committee on revenue and taxation, and others. It will be opposed by several democrats, led by Senators Caminetti and .- Shanahan. vho expressed themselves on the floor of the senate as standing againt the use of the words, "ineligible to citizenship" in describing alit-ns whom they sought to restrict. This linage is seriously condemned by President Wilson and Secretary of State Bryan in a telegram revolved by ' Governor Johnson last week, and the bill which Caminetti or his democratic colleagues will introduce will confine the restriction to "aliens who have not declared their intention to become citizens ac cording to law." In effect, the progressive republican are now proposing substantially the original democratic bill, while the. democrats are tending toward the original Administration bill. Governor Johnson issued his first statement tonight on the pending alien land legislation. After saying the nation, a well as the single states, passed . such laws without causing an outcry, and naming Arizona, Washington, Illinois and other?, he said: "We of California ask therefore, Why should California be singled out for an attack when it Is exercising the same right exercised by so many mates and by . the United States it- SPlf ?" Despite a determined fighr led by Assemblyman Fish, of, Pasadena, Assemblyman Guiberson's bill providing for new standards of milk production, and dairy regulation was passed with but one dissenting vote. Development Unexpected WASHINGTON, Aprtl 21 News of the determination of the legislative leaders In Sacramento to frame and pass an alien land owning bill directly discriminating against the Japanese was unofficially conveyed today o the White House and state department, and was received with grave concern and disappointment. Such a development had not been expected In view of the first favorable comments from California on the president's suggestion that regard be had for the preservation of friendly relations between this country and the Oriental nations. Without exact knowledge as to the form the discrimination will take in the new bill, the officials here assume it will resemble the so-called assembly measure which proposed to bar from" land holding all persons ineligible to citizenship, which covers only Chinese and Japanese. The administration is not yet at the end of its resources and will continue ita efforts to ameliorate the harsh features of 'the projected legls latlon until the measure Is beyond reach of amendment In that direc tion. , While the president has in his message to Governor Johnson trans mitted through Secretary Bryan the recognized right of the people of California to legislate according to their judgment on the subject of land tenure, it is also under " the obligation of guarding against en croachment by -slate legislation upon that part of the field of interna tional relations reserved by the con stitution to the national government Therefore in the event the Cali fornia legislation takes the form of a (Continued on Page Eleven) WOODLAWN LEVEE i HAS SERIOUS BREAK VICKSBURG. April 21. The ' first serious break in the main 1 dikes of the lower Missippi val-I ley occurred this afternoon when i the Woodlawn levee, just " north or Mayorsville. Miss., went out. j Parts of four Mississippi coun-j ties will he flooded with a re- sultant property damage of more than one million dollars. Captain Baiter of the United States of America ordered out two boats to do rescue and relief work. Democratic Forces Yield to Demand For More Hearings associated press dispatch WASHINGTON, April 21. Democratic forces in charge of the. tariff revision in the senate yielded slightly today to demands for hearings on the tariff schedules, in addition permission was given all Interested parties to file further statements with the finance committee. Senator Simmons conceded today to the western senators the right to appear and state their arguments against the free wool and free sugar provisions which have been agreed to by the democrats of the house. A full meeting of the senate finance committee will be held tomorrow. The republican senators will renew their O-emand that general open hearings be given. The attitude of the majority of the democratic mgmbers of the committee Is against this, however. The Underwood tariff bill as finally approved and revised by the caucus of house democrats was reintroduced today in the house by Representative Underwood and referred back to the ways and means committee. Tomorrow it will reappear with a favorable report from the democrats on the committee and with a dissenting report from the republican committee members.VIlESLiRY IN LOS ANGELES George II. Bixby, the Long Beach Millionaire, is Summoned As Witness in Case of Proprietress of Manicure Parlor associated press dispatch LOS ANGELES. April 21. Geo. II. Bixby, a millionaire of Long Beach, was served today with a subpoena de manding his presence in the township court of Justice Reeve next Wednesday as a witness in the case of Mrs. Josie Rosenberg, alias Mrs. Emma Josephine Goodman, who was arrested on felony charges, connected with white slave allegations and placed in the county Jail in default of ten thousand dollars bail. That was the day's most important development in the sensational case bared by the police department of Los Angeles, members of which declared the investigation tended to connect come of southern California s most wealthy and influential citizens in the alleged enslavement of forty-one young girls. ! Other developments included the holding by the police of Mrs. C. B. Badger, proprietress of a so-called massage parlor in connection with charges against Mrs. Rosenberg and the sentencing In police court to six months each on the rock pile of E. J. Davis and Frank Copeland, alleged procurers, who pleaded guilty to vag rancy charges. These men are said to have been associates of Mrs. Rosenberg and Mrs. Badger. Mrs. Rosenberg, according to the po lice, conducted in the down town district a so-called lodging house, known as "The Jonquil" where many young girjs gathered from department stores. restaurants and other places of employment and are alleged to have been lured to meet wealthy men. Among them, the police named Mrs. Irene Marie Brown Levy, who will not be seventeen until June 1, who was brought back today from Redlands where she is alleged to have been in hiding at the home of her uncle, Harvey Phillips. Mrs. Levy said she received several thousand dollars for leaving Los Angeles, but according to the officers who brought her back she expressed a willingness to tell the truth of the alleged revolting acts in which she and others girls are said to have participated at "The Jonquil." Mrs. Levy's statements, the police said, involve, among others, a promin ent millionaire who was known among his dupes and cadets as "The Black Pearl" because of the setting of the scarf pin he always wore. At times, however, he is said to have been known simply as "Mr. King" a tribute which declared his majesty who disregards money. The police said Mrs. Levy stated she had obtained various sums of money from him, but was always forced to div' 'c with Mrs. Rosenberg. WEATHER TODAY associated press dispatch WASHINGTON. D. C, April 21.-For Arizona Fair in the soutli, prob ably showers in the north. TEFfE SCENE OF SOD FELLOWS GRAND LODGE More Than Two Hundred Delegates from All Over Arizona Throng Streets of the Little City Across the River ANNUAL ELECTION OCCURS TODAY Exemplification Work by Phoenix Lodge Last Night Provokes Great Praise Automobile Trips Over the Vallev Todav TEMPE, Ariz., April 21. In the presence of over two hundred delegates from all parts of the state of Arizona, the grand lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows was called to order this morning in tlw Cosmopolitan hall in this city by Hon. R. S. Longmoor of Mesa, the chief presiding officer. With the calling of the roll of the delegates it was found that from all the state there were but sixteen members absent, a most notable, record. The hour of calling the convention to order was at 10 o'clock sharp. In connection with the grand lodge meeting there is being held the grand assembly of the Daughters of Rebekah, and the grand encampment of the Patriarchs Militant of the state. Delegates and members of the orders are present from all over the state, and Tempe today presented as busy a scene on the streets of the city as could well be imagined, for the little city of schools and churches. The streets are decorated and there is not a business establishment in the city that has not put on a gala attire in honor of the coming of the delegates from all Arizona. The early morning session of the iliree branches of oddfollowdiip were taken up with perfecting the preliminary details of organization of the grand lodges. The second meeting occured early in the afternoon, the oddfellows themselves : ?ain meeting in the Cosmopolitan h?il, while the ladies lodge met in the L. O. O. F. hall. The early hours of the afternoon session were taken up in giving the inl- tiary degree to the grand lodge to twenty-eight past noble grands of the subordinate lodges and they were admitted to the rights and privileges of full members of the grand lodge. At night there was work in exem- : plification in both the grand lodge of oddfellows and the Rebekahs. The degree team from the Phoenix lodge came down in a body, and up to a late hour last night were busily engaged in exemplification of the work of the initiatory degree. The Rebekahs at their meeting place were engaged in a like task. When all was over the grand lodge officers were loud in their praise of the excellence of the ritualistic endeavors of the degree teams at both grand lodges. " The sessions of the order are for three days, but beginning tomorrow there will be a good deal of the time spent in sightseeing and entertainment. The annual election occurs to morrow in the grand lodge at ten o'clock and the installation ceremonies will be held Wednesday evening. The program for the coming two days is as. follows: Tuesday, April 22. 9 a. m. Grand lodge convenes in Cosmopolitan hall. 9 a. m. Rebekah assembly convenes in I. O. O. F. hall. 3 p. m. Grand encampment convenes in Cosmopolitan hall. 8 p. m. Literary and musical entertainment at Normal auditorium. Wednesday, April 23. 9 a. m. Grand lodge convenes in Cosmopolitan hall. 9 a. m. Rebekah asembly convenes in I. O. O. F. hall. 3 p. m. Grand encampment convenes in Cosmopolitan hall. 9 p. m. Banquet in Normal dormitory.Headquarters were established at the Casa Loma hotel, where a brother was stationed to attend to the wants of visitors and from whom autos can be secured for short trips through the valley. Autos will leave Casa Loma hotel for Granite Pweef.and the Arizona canal power house at 11 o'clock tomorrow returning through Mesa city for the dinner to be served by the members of the order of that city, re turning to Tempe in time for the en tertainment at the Normal school, which will be exceptionally good. . o CARRANZA NOT NAMED ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH J . EL PASO, April 21. Venustiano Carranza insurgent governor of Coahuila and military leader of the constitutionalist movement was not named as provisional president at the Monclova insurgent congress. This is . the declaration of Dr. Samuel Navarro who returned tonight from the congress at Monclova, Coahuila, where he represented the state of Chihuahua. WHEN FELLER NEEDS FIRST DAY IN U. S. COURT IS BUST SESSION Grand Jury Returns Sixtv- seven Indictments Forty Sentenced Liquor Cases in Majority Pleas of Guilty Numerous Forty sentences fell from the lips of Hon. William W. Morrow in fed eral court yesterday afternoon, pro nouncing fate on prisoners pleading guilty to counts found by the grand Jury in its busy session yesterday morning and afternoon. Two pleaded not guilty and their cases are set for April 28, four indictments were ig nored and a total of sixty--seven true bills were returned. That in brief is the result of one of the busiest days ever experienced in the United States district court in Ari zona. In three hours yesterday the grand jury sifted forty-four cases and returned forty-two bills. In half an hour the court had heard forty pleas of guilty in liquor selling cases and had pronounced the sentences. The heaviest of the forty sentences was placed upon the youngest defendant, Maximo Peralta. or Relen, New Mexico, who twisted his hands and stammered and fidgeted pitifully us he pleaded guilty to breaking into the postoffice building at Chiri-cahua. Peralta is but eighteen years of age. He is not over bright, and seemed hardly to understand what was being done with him. Judge Morrow called District Attorney Morrison up and asked the circumstances in the case against the youthful lawbreaker. He did the best he could for the lad under the statutes. Peralta was senteced to serve fifteen months in the federal prison at Atlanta, Georgia. Under the cir cumstances no other punishment could be inflicted. Another peculiar case was that of a young Austrian, Loui Lavonovich, who arose on the calling of his name by the clerk, and pleaded in broken English that he been in Globe only a few minutes when a "polixtman" came up and nabbed him. The charge was selling liquor to an Indian and he pleaded not guilty. His case was set for Aprir 28. Thomas Judd also entered a not guilty plea, saying that he had taken an Indian's money but had not given him the whiskey he had bought with it. This case also was set for trial on April 28. The county jail at Prescott will receive a consignment of thirty-four sixty-day prisoners, who received their sentences yesterday. In each case the charge was that of selling liquor to an Indian, and in each case the defendant stated that it was his (Continued on Page Three) ! MARK SMITH ASKS. i FOR INFORMATION. y WASHINGTON, April 21. What j damage the Americans suffered in j ! Mexico and what claims will be j presented and what action will be j j taken by this government toward j enforcing them, what citizens are j j held for ransom and what redress j j is offered is demanded in the ques- tions President Wilson is asked to j answer to the senate. Senator j Smith of Arizona, introduced such j a resolution today which was re- t j f erred to the foreign relations com- j mittee. .;. : Tames S. Douglas Is Ordered Aivay From Cananea ASSOCIATED PRKSS DISPATCH CANANEA, April 21. James S. Douglas, president of the Cananea Consolidated Copper company, was forced today by a mob of two thousand miners and smelter men to leave Cananea immediately. He acceded to the demand and departed in an automobile for the border. j The mob presented its demands to Douglas at eleven o'clock this morning. ' He immediately acceded and left in the afternoon in an automobile for the international border. The mob was composed of both unemployed and the workingmen of the company and they were accompanied when they presented their demand by J. N. Durazo, prefect of the Arizpe district and Colonel Alvarado in command of the Sonora state troops here. Neither offered to interfere with the action of the mob. The conditions here are apparently more serious than at any time in the history of the copper' camp, the miners and smeltermen having become greatly dissatisfied because of the closing of the mines and smelters. Their action of forcing Douglas to leave the camp, however, is believed by many to have been uncalled for in many respects. Only last Friday the company of which he is president, gave each employed man who desired to leave Cananea, seven and a half pesos for traveling expenses, while the state provided them with transportation The outcome of the trouble here is problematical. Word was received here tonight that Douglas and Secretary S. P. Applewhite had crossed the border safely into the United States this afternoon. It was, explained that a demand was made upon him by the mob that he leave the country or give them all work. Because -of the unsettled conditions here, it would have been impossible to have pro vided all the idle men with employ ment. , The affairs of the company were placed in the hands of George Toung, the secretary, pending the arrival here from Globe, Arizona, of Dr. L. D. - Ricketts, the president, who was sent a. telegram today asking for his presence at Cananea. Cantura Piadrat Nanra. EAGLE PASS, April 21. According to "Governor Carranza of" .Coahuila, 1 A FRIEND. L TOLLS FIGHT BRINGS Senator Chamberlain Introduces Resolution in Senate Providing for Abroga7 tion of Two Present Treaties With Britain ASSOCIATED r JUIS 8 DISPATCH WASHINGTON,. April 21. A demand for the abrogation of two treaties- with Great Britain bearing upon the Isthmian canal rights was presented today in a senate resolution by Senator Chamberlain and brought a new element into the canal controversy now in progress between this country and Great Bri- tai i over the right of the United States to exempt American coast wise ships from the payment of tolls. Senator O'Gorman, chairman of the Inicr-Oceanic canals committee. v hkh .must handle the canal legisla tion in the senate, endorsed tonight the principle embodied' in the Cham berlain resolution. Earlv in the day the state department officials ex pressed ignorance of Senator Cham berlain's plan to introduce the re solution. The Chamberlain resolu tion would require the president to proceed at once to terminate the Hay-Pauncefote treaty of 1901. and the Clayton-Bulwer treaty of . 1S52 which it superseded. In his statement Senator Cham berlain said the treaties and records wejtld show the United States never planned to give Great Britain such treaty rights as would justify the pretests that country has made. The situation caused such discus- Bivrr-in the senate circles and brought ojl many endorsements on the pro pofal. Senator O'Gorman declared at the close of today's session he be lieved the resolution would pass by a large majority if it came to a vote. who is at Piedras Negras in confer ence with the constitutionalists, the leader of his forces - captured the town and General Capeda is between Saltillo and Torreon with a strong colum of rebels' moving' on Saltillo and. Torreon Mexicans Are . Released DOUGLAS,. - April. 21. In. compli ance with an order of the war de partment.. seventh-five insurgent state tKoops who were prisoners here since they fled to this ' side during ' the battle at Naco, were marched -across tl.c line today. - There were similar I oroers to dispose of the soldiers held nt Nognles and Naco, General Ojeda v'as not .released. .; : UNIQUE DEB LOVETT SEEKS Q0BEI1EF0R DISSOLUTION Q Mi Presents Motion for Extension to July 11, Stating by That Time Plan Will Be, Perfected Agreeable to the Court . CIRCUIT JUDGES HEAR ARGUMENT Generall Believed Appeal Will Be Granted As Railroads Seem to Be Reallv Striving to Obey Mandate of the Court ASSOCIATE fUM DISPATCH ST. PAUL, April 21. -Tho presentation of a motion for an extension of time until July 11 which was taken under advisement by the court and the informal presentation of a. revised plan, of the dissolution of the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific railway merger marked a conference here today between Robert S. Lovett of the Union Pacific and United States Circuit Judge Walter H. Sanborn, William C. Hook and Walter I. Smith. Lovett's motion for an extension was at first denied, the judges being undecided on the question ot jurisdiction. Later, however, they expressed the opinion the extension could be granted, believing the railway was doing all In Its power to present a plan of dissolution that would be acceptable to the supreme, court, and to the attorney general. In a telegram read to the -court. United States Attorney General Me-Reynolds declared his willingness to grant the desired extension. Upon information from the supreme court as to the jurisdiction of the circuit judges, the covrt jf " appeals may convene and act on Lovett's action. It may be some time, however, before- this will be done. Lovett and his associates left iate today for Washington to place the time of the extension of the motion before the supreme court. Following the presentation of the motion, Lovett informally presented the court with a tentative plan of dissolution. Late this afternoon a synopsis of the plan was given out by the judges. The amended plan in brief is that the entire $126,650,000 of Southern Pacific stock to be distributed shall be deposited with a trustee and disfranchised while so held; the certificates of interest to be issued by the trustee againBt said shares which shall carry no voting right and which shall be exchangeable for Southern Pacific shares held, by the trustee only upon the filing of an affidavit by an applicant of such exchange, showing that such applicant does not own 1000 shares or more of Un ion' Pacific stock; that these certifi cates of interest shall be offered for subscription and purchase to all Un ion Pacific stockholders ratably at a. distribution ratio of not less than 38 per cent. The largest Union Pacific stock holders (368 in number, according to the September stock list) are by this amended plan entirely excludad from the acquisition of- any of the South ern Pacific shares to be distributed. The objection expressed by the supreme courts opinion on Janu ary 6, 1913," the amended plan states. therefore absolutely avoided for the 3G8 Union Pacific stockholders to whom the objection pertained Instead of being entitled to pro rata shares to twenty-nine per cent of the South ern Pacific stock and being theoretically able to increase this holding by the acquisition of rights from the smaller shareholders are not entitled to acquire one single share of the Southern Pacific stock to be distributed."The amended plan continues: "But even if it- be assumed that any concerted action by the 21,782 holders of the Southern Pacific stock resulting in control ; of the elections of the Southern Pacific company is possible, the effect " will not be to continue the previous combination. These 21,782 holders assume to be able to control the Southern Pacific company by holding actually forty six per cent of its stock do not control the Union Pacific Railroad company . and not are able to elect its directors, since their aggregate holdings of Union Pacific stocks amounts to only, 47.7 per cent- of the Union Pacific stock and as the votes of the remaining 468 stock-holders holding 62.8 per cent , of the stock, naturally these represent " a controling interest of the Union Pacific company. " ' K .'" 1 -i . The plan also provides the saiotto a- syndicate or on the tNew York stock exchange any certificates of interest not subscribed for by Southern pacific shareholders. Certificates of . interest, it continues, unacquired on -the open market will still be subject to conditions that they are not td be ' converted into stock by afay Union... Pacific shareholder s holding one thousand shares or more,' V ', s i , ft "'.'At ,U.,'. i ' ;

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THE AM AW l&trsrrV'BIT PROGRESSIVE JOURNAL TWENTY-THIRD YEAR. 12 PAGES PIIOENfX, AiM7,u:,A, TUESDAY MORNING, APRIL--22, 1913. 12 PAGES .VOL. XXIII. NO. 331 IRE DRASTIC LAND BILL IS BEING FRAUD It is Expected That New Proposed Measures Will Be Voted On by California Senate Some Time This Week GUARDED LANGUAGE IS THROWN OUT Amendment Will Provide No Alien Ineligible to Citizenship May Hold Any Land vfior Greater Period Than Year AMOCTATBD PMS BISFATOHj 8 ACR.VM ENTO, April 21. Two ih-vv bills dealing with the Question of land ownership by aliens of California, each representing the views of con.sidera.ble of the factions of the legislature, will be offered and voted on in the senate this week. Thnmgh an agreement reached by ibe leaders of the majority, a drastic law directed solely against the Japanese ami Chinese will be proposed as a substitute for the Thompson-Hirdsall measure and put in its place two -simple prohibitions: 1. No alien who is ineligible to citizenship will be permitted to acquire and hold land in California beyond a period of one year after the date of such acquisition. 2. No corporation, the majority of the stock of which is held by aliens who are ineligible to citizenship will be permitted to acquire or hold land t-Tcept for one year. Agreed to this procedure are Senator A. E. Boynton, president pro tern and floor leader of the upper house; Senator Lee C. Gates, chairman of the judiciary committee; Senator X. W. Thompson, chairman of the committee on revenue and taxation, and others. It will be opposed by several democrats, led by Senators Caminetti and .- Shanahan. vho expressed themselves on the floor of the senate as standing againt the use of the words, "ineligible to citizenship" in describing alit-ns whom they sought to restrict. This linage is seriously condemned by President Wilson and Secretary of State Bryan in a telegram revolved by ' Governor Johnson last week, and the bill which Caminetti or his democratic colleagues will introduce will confine the restriction to "aliens who have not declared their intention to become citizens ac cording to law." In effect, the progressive republican are now proposing substantially the original democratic bill, while the. democrats are tending toward the original Administration bill. Governor Johnson issued his first statement tonight on the pending alien land legislation. After saying the nation, a well as the single states, passed . such laws without causing an outcry, and naming Arizona, Washington, Illinois and other?, he said: "We of California ask therefore, Why should California be singled out for an attack when it Is exercising the same right exercised by so many mates and by . the United States it- SPlf ?" Despite a determined fighr led by Assemblyman Fish, of, Pasadena, Assemblyman Guiberson's bill providing for new standards of milk production, and dairy regulation was passed with but one dissenting vote. Development Unexpected WASHINGTON, Aprtl 21 News of the determination of the legislative leaders In Sacramento to frame and pass an alien land owning bill directly discriminating against the Japanese was unofficially conveyed today o the White House and state department, and was received with grave concern and disappointment. Such a development had not been expected In view of the first favorable comments from California on the president's suggestion that regard be had for the preservation of friendly relations between this country and the Oriental nations. Without exact knowledge as to the form the discrimination will take in the new bill, the officials here assume it will resemble the so-called assembly measure which proposed to bar from" land holding all persons ineligible to citizenship, which covers only Chinese and Japanese. The administration is not yet at the end of its resources and will continue ita efforts to ameliorate the harsh features of 'the projected legls latlon until the measure Is beyond reach of amendment In that direc tion. , While the president has in his message to Governor Johnson trans mitted through Secretary Bryan the recognized right of the people of California to legislate according to their judgment on the subject of land tenure, it is also under " the obligation of guarding against en croachment by -slate legislation upon that part of the field of interna tional relations reserved by the con stitution to the national government Therefore in the event the Cali fornia legislation takes the form of a (Continued on Page Eleven) WOODLAWN LEVEE i HAS SERIOUS BREAK VICKSBURG. April 21. The ' first serious break in the main 1 dikes of the lower Missippi val-I ley occurred this afternoon when i the Woodlawn levee, just " north or Mayorsville. Miss., went out. j Parts of four Mississippi coun-j ties will he flooded with a re- sultant property damage of more than one million dollars. Captain Baiter of the United States of America ordered out two boats to do rescue and relief work. Democratic Forces Yield to Demand For More Hearings associated press dispatch WASHINGTON, April 21. Democratic forces in charge of the. tariff revision in the senate yielded slightly today to demands for hearings on the tariff schedules, in addition permission was given all Interested parties to file further statements with the finance committee. Senator Simmons conceded today to the western senators the right to appear and state their arguments against the free wool and free sugar provisions which have been agreed to by the democrats of the house. A full meeting of the senate finance committee will be held tomorrow. The republican senators will renew their O-emand that general open hearings be given. The attitude of the majority of the democratic mgmbers of the committee Is against this, however. The Underwood tariff bill as finally approved and revised by the caucus of house democrats was reintroduced today in the house by Representative Underwood and referred back to the ways and means committee. Tomorrow it will reappear with a favorable report from the democrats on the committee and with a dissenting report from the republican committee members.VIlESLiRY IN LOS ANGELES George II. Bixby, the Long Beach Millionaire, is Summoned As Witness in Case of Proprietress of Manicure Parlor associated press dispatch LOS ANGELES. April 21. Geo. II. Bixby, a millionaire of Long Beach, was served today with a subpoena de manding his presence in the township court of Justice Reeve next Wednesday as a witness in the case of Mrs. Josie Rosenberg, alias Mrs. Emma Josephine Goodman, who was arrested on felony charges, connected with white slave allegations and placed in the county Jail in default of ten thousand dollars bail. That was the day's most important development in the sensational case bared by the police department of Los Angeles, members of which declared the investigation tended to connect come of southern California s most wealthy and influential citizens in the alleged enslavement of forty-one young girls. ! Other developments included the holding by the police of Mrs. C. B. Badger, proprietress of a so-called massage parlor in connection with charges against Mrs. Rosenberg and the sentencing In police court to six months each on the rock pile of E. J. Davis and Frank Copeland, alleged procurers, who pleaded guilty to vag rancy charges. These men are said to have been associates of Mrs. Rosenberg and Mrs. Badger. Mrs. Rosenberg, according to the po lice, conducted in the down town district a so-called lodging house, known as "The Jonquil" where many young girjs gathered from department stores. restaurants and other places of employment and are alleged to have been lured to meet wealthy men. Among them, the police named Mrs. Irene Marie Brown Levy, who will not be seventeen until June 1, who was brought back today from Redlands where she is alleged to have been in hiding at the home of her uncle, Harvey Phillips. Mrs. Levy said she received several thousand dollars for leaving Los Angeles, but according to the officers who brought her back she expressed a willingness to tell the truth of the alleged revolting acts in which she and others girls are said to have participated at "The Jonquil." Mrs. Levy's statements, the police said, involve, among others, a promin ent millionaire who was known among his dupes and cadets as "The Black Pearl" because of the setting of the scarf pin he always wore. At times, however, he is said to have been known simply as "Mr. King" a tribute which declared his majesty who disregards money. The police said Mrs. Levy stated she had obtained various sums of money from him, but was always forced to div' 'c with Mrs. Rosenberg. WEATHER TODAY associated press dispatch WASHINGTON. D. C, April 21.-For Arizona Fair in the soutli, prob ably showers in the north. TEFfE SCENE OF SOD FELLOWS GRAND LODGE More Than Two Hundred Delegates from All Over Arizona Throng Streets of the Little City Across the River ANNUAL ELECTION OCCURS TODAY Exemplification Work by Phoenix Lodge Last Night Provokes Great Praise Automobile Trips Over the Vallev Todav TEMPE, Ariz., April 21. In the presence of over two hundred delegates from all parts of the state of Arizona, the grand lodge of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows was called to order this morning in tlw Cosmopolitan hall in this city by Hon. R. S. Longmoor of Mesa, the chief presiding officer. With the calling of the roll of the delegates it was found that from all the state there were but sixteen members absent, a most notable, record. The hour of calling the convention to order was at 10 o'clock sharp. In connection with the grand lodge meeting there is being held the grand assembly of the Daughters of Rebekah, and the grand encampment of the Patriarchs Militant of the state. Delegates and members of the orders are present from all over the state, and Tempe today presented as busy a scene on the streets of the city as could well be imagined, for the little city of schools and churches. The streets are decorated and there is not a business establishment in the city that has not put on a gala attire in honor of the coming of the delegates from all Arizona. The early morning session of the iliree branches of oddfollowdiip were taken up with perfecting the preliminary details of organization of the grand lodges. The second meeting occured early in the afternoon, the oddfellows themselves : ?ain meeting in the Cosmopolitan h?il, while the ladies lodge met in the L. O. O. F. hall. The early hours of the afternoon session were taken up in giving the inl- tiary degree to the grand lodge to twenty-eight past noble grands of the subordinate lodges and they were admitted to the rights and privileges of full members of the grand lodge. At night there was work in exem- : plification in both the grand lodge of oddfellows and the Rebekahs. The degree team from the Phoenix lodge came down in a body, and up to a late hour last night were busily engaged in exemplification of the work of the initiatory degree. The Rebekahs at their meeting place were engaged in a like task. When all was over the grand lodge officers were loud in their praise of the excellence of the ritualistic endeavors of the degree teams at both grand lodges. " The sessions of the order are for three days, but beginning tomorrow there will be a good deal of the time spent in sightseeing and entertainment. The annual election occurs to morrow in the grand lodge at ten o'clock and the installation ceremonies will be held Wednesday evening. The program for the coming two days is as. follows: Tuesday, April 22. 9 a. m. Grand lodge convenes in Cosmopolitan hall. 9 a. m. Rebekah assembly convenes in I. O. O. F. hall. 3 p. m. Grand encampment convenes in Cosmopolitan hall. 8 p. m. Literary and musical entertainment at Normal auditorium. Wednesday, April 23. 9 a. m. Grand lodge convenes in Cosmopolitan hall. 9 a. m. Rebekah asembly convenes in I. O. O. F. hall. 3 p. m. Grand encampment convenes in Cosmopolitan hall. 9 p. m. Banquet in Normal dormitory.Headquarters were established at the Casa Loma hotel, where a brother was stationed to attend to the wants of visitors and from whom autos can be secured for short trips through the valley. Autos will leave Casa Loma hotel for Granite Pweef.and the Arizona canal power house at 11 o'clock tomorrow returning through Mesa city for the dinner to be served by the members of the order of that city, re turning to Tempe in time for the en tertainment at the Normal school, which will be exceptionally good. . o CARRANZA NOT NAMED ASSOCIATED PRESS DISPATCH J . EL PASO, April 21. Venustiano Carranza insurgent governor of Coahuila and military leader of the constitutionalist movement was not named as provisional president at the Monclova insurgent congress. This is . the declaration of Dr. Samuel Navarro who returned tonight from the congress at Monclova, Coahuila, where he represented the state of Chihuahua. WHEN FELLER NEEDS FIRST DAY IN U. S. COURT IS BUST SESSION Grand Jury Returns Sixtv- seven Indictments Forty Sentenced Liquor Cases in Majority Pleas of Guilty Numerous Forty sentences fell from the lips of Hon. William W. Morrow in fed eral court yesterday afternoon, pro nouncing fate on prisoners pleading guilty to counts found by the grand Jury in its busy session yesterday morning and afternoon. Two pleaded not guilty and their cases are set for April 28, four indictments were ig nored and a total of sixty--seven true bills were returned. That in brief is the result of one of the busiest days ever experienced in the United States district court in Ari zona. In three hours yesterday the grand jury sifted forty-four cases and returned forty-two bills. In half an hour the court had heard forty pleas of guilty in liquor selling cases and had pronounced the sentences. The heaviest of the forty sentences was placed upon the youngest defendant, Maximo Peralta. or Relen, New Mexico, who twisted his hands and stammered and fidgeted pitifully us he pleaded guilty to breaking into the postoffice building at Chiri-cahua. Peralta is but eighteen years of age. He is not over bright, and seemed hardly to understand what was being done with him. Judge Morrow called District Attorney Morrison up and asked the circumstances in the case against the youthful lawbreaker. He did the best he could for the lad under the statutes. Peralta was senteced to serve fifteen months in the federal prison at Atlanta, Georgia. Under the cir cumstances no other punishment could be inflicted. Another peculiar case was that of a young Austrian, Loui Lavonovich, who arose on the calling of his name by the clerk, and pleaded in broken English that he been in Globe only a few minutes when a "polixtman" came up and nabbed him. The charge was selling liquor to an Indian and he pleaded not guilty. His case was set for Aprir 28. Thomas Judd also entered a not guilty plea, saying that he had taken an Indian's money but had not given him the whiskey he had bought with it. This case also was set for trial on April 28. The county jail at Prescott will receive a consignment of thirty-four sixty-day prisoners, who received their sentences yesterday. In each case the charge was that of selling liquor to an Indian, and in each case the defendant stated that it was his (Continued on Page Three) ! MARK SMITH ASKS. i FOR INFORMATION. y WASHINGTON, April 21. What j damage the Americans suffered in j ! Mexico and what claims will be j presented and what action will be j j taken by this government toward j enforcing them, what citizens are j j held for ransom and what redress j j is offered is demanded in the ques- tions President Wilson is asked to j answer to the senate. Senator j Smith of Arizona, introduced such j a resolution today which was re- t j f erred to the foreign relations com- j mittee. .;. : Tames S. Douglas Is Ordered Aivay From Cananea ASSOCIATED PRKSS DISPATCH CANANEA, April 21. James S. Douglas, president of the Cananea Consolidated Copper company, was forced today by a mob of two thousand miners and smelter men to leave Cananea immediately. He acceded to the demand and departed in an automobile for the border. j The mob presented its demands to Douglas at eleven o'clock this morning. ' He immediately acceded and left in the afternoon in an automobile for the international border. The mob was composed of both unemployed and the workingmen of the company and they were accompanied when they presented their demand by J. N. Durazo, prefect of the Arizpe district and Colonel Alvarado in command of the Sonora state troops here. Neither offered to interfere with the action of the mob. The conditions here are apparently more serious than at any time in the history of the copper' camp, the miners and smeltermen having become greatly dissatisfied because of the closing of the mines and smelters. Their action of forcing Douglas to leave the camp, however, is believed by many to have been uncalled for in many respects. Only last Friday the company of which he is president, gave each employed man who desired to leave Cananea, seven and a half pesos for traveling expenses, while the state provided them with transportation The outcome of the trouble here is problematical. Word was received here tonight that Douglas and Secretary S. P. Applewhite had crossed the border safely into the United States this afternoon. It was, explained that a demand was made upon him by the mob that he leave the country or give them all work. Because -of the unsettled conditions here, it would have been impossible to have pro vided all the idle men with employ ment. , The affairs of the company were placed in the hands of George Toung, the secretary, pending the arrival here from Globe, Arizona, of Dr. L. D. - Ricketts, the president, who was sent a. telegram today asking for his presence at Cananea. Cantura Piadrat Nanra. EAGLE PASS, April 21. According to "Governor Carranza of" .Coahuila, 1 A FRIEND. L TOLLS FIGHT BRINGS Senator Chamberlain Introduces Resolution in Senate Providing for Abroga7 tion of Two Present Treaties With Britain ASSOCIATED r JUIS 8 DISPATCH WASHINGTON,. April 21. A demand for the abrogation of two treaties- with Great Britain bearing upon the Isthmian canal rights was presented today in a senate resolution by Senator Chamberlain and brought a new element into the canal controversy now in progress between this country and Great Bri- tai i over the right of the United States to exempt American coast wise ships from the payment of tolls. Senator O'Gorman, chairman of the Inicr-Oceanic canals committee. v hkh .must handle the canal legisla tion in the senate, endorsed tonight the principle embodied' in the Cham berlain resolution. Earlv in the day the state department officials ex pressed ignorance of Senator Cham berlain's plan to introduce the re solution. The Chamberlain resolu tion would require the president to proceed at once to terminate the Hay-Pauncefote treaty of 1901. and the Clayton-Bulwer treaty of . 1S52 which it superseded. In his statement Senator Cham berlain said the treaties and records wejtld show the United States never planned to give Great Britain such treaty rights as would justify the pretests that country has made. The situation caused such discus- Bivrr-in the senate circles and brought ojl many endorsements on the pro pofal. Senator O'Gorman declared at the close of today's session he be lieved the resolution would pass by a large majority if it came to a vote. who is at Piedras Negras in confer ence with the constitutionalists, the leader of his forces - captured the town and General Capeda is between Saltillo and Torreon with a strong colum of rebels' moving' on Saltillo and. Torreon Mexicans Are . Released DOUGLAS,. - April. 21. In. compli ance with an order of the war de partment.. seventh-five insurgent state tKoops who were prisoners here since they fled to this ' side during ' the battle at Naco, were marched -across tl.c line today. - There were similar I oroers to dispose of the soldiers held nt Nognles and Naco, General Ojeda v'as not .released. .; : UNIQUE DEB LOVETT SEEKS Q0BEI1EF0R DISSOLUTION Q Mi Presents Motion for Extension to July 11, Stating by That Time Plan Will Be, Perfected Agreeable to the Court . CIRCUIT JUDGES HEAR ARGUMENT Generall Believed Appeal Will Be Granted As Railroads Seem to Be Reallv Striving to Obey Mandate of the Court ASSOCIATE fUM DISPATCH ST. PAUL, April 21. -Tho presentation of a motion for an extension of time until July 11 which was taken under advisement by the court and the informal presentation of a. revised plan, of the dissolution of the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific railway merger marked a conference here today between Robert S. Lovett of the Union Pacific and United States Circuit Judge Walter H. Sanborn, William C. Hook and Walter I. Smith. Lovett's motion for an extension was at first denied, the judges being undecided on the question ot jurisdiction. Later, however, they expressed the opinion the extension could be granted, believing the railway was doing all In Its power to present a plan of dissolution that would be acceptable to the supreme, court, and to the attorney general. In a telegram read to the -court. United States Attorney General Me-Reynolds declared his willingness to grant the desired extension. Upon information from the supreme court as to the jurisdiction of the circuit judges, the covrt jf " appeals may convene and act on Lovett's action. It may be some time, however, before- this will be done. Lovett and his associates left iate today for Washington to place the time of the extension of the motion before the supreme court. Following the presentation of the motion, Lovett informally presented the court with a tentative plan of dissolution. Late this afternoon a synopsis of the plan was given out by the judges. The amended plan in brief is that the entire $126,650,000 of Southern Pacific stock to be distributed shall be deposited with a trustee and disfranchised while so held; the certificates of interest to be issued by the trustee againBt said shares which shall carry no voting right and which shall be exchangeable for Southern Pacific shares held, by the trustee only upon the filing of an affidavit by an applicant of such exchange, showing that such applicant does not own 1000 shares or more of Un ion' Pacific stock; that these certifi cates of interest shall be offered for subscription and purchase to all Un ion Pacific stockholders ratably at a. distribution ratio of not less than 38 per cent. The largest Union Pacific stock holders (368 in number, according to the September stock list) are by this amended plan entirely excludad from the acquisition of- any of the South ern Pacific shares to be distributed. The objection expressed by the supreme courts opinion on Janu ary 6, 1913," the amended plan states. therefore absolutely avoided for the 3G8 Union Pacific stockholders to whom the objection pertained Instead of being entitled to pro rata shares to twenty-nine per cent of the South ern Pacific stock and being theoretically able to increase this holding by the acquisition of rights from the smaller shareholders are not entitled to acquire one single share of the Southern Pacific stock to be distributed."The amended plan continues: "But even if it- be assumed that any concerted action by the 21,782 holders of the Southern Pacific stock resulting in control ; of the elections of the Southern Pacific company is possible, the effect " will not be to continue the previous combination. These 21,782 holders assume to be able to control the Southern Pacific company by holding actually forty six per cent of its stock do not control the Union Pacific Railroad company . and not are able to elect its directors, since their aggregate holdings of Union Pacific stocks amounts to only, 47.7 per cent- of the Union Pacific stock and as the votes of the remaining 468 stock-holders holding 62.8 per cent , of the stock, naturally these represent " a controling interest of the Union Pacific company. " ' K .'" 1 -i . The plan also provides the saiotto a- syndicate or on the tNew York stock exchange any certificates of interest not subscribed for by Southern pacific shareholders. Certificates of . interest, it continues, unacquired on -the open market will still be subject to conditions that they are not td be ' converted into stock by afay Union... Pacific shareholder s holding one thousand shares or more,' V ', s i , ft "'.'At ,U.,'. i ' ;